SCOX had a huge opening gap up this morning. Today's high is currently 8.04 for a stock that had a previous 52-week high of 4.86.

Mr. Softee can't buy SCO -- owning Unix would have just a few antitrust concerns. They want to fund SCO's efforts to destroy Linux (and free software in general), but why simply fund SCO, when you can license the Unix source code and patents in the process? Microsoft comes out of this licensing arrangement looking like a model citizen in the software world, while the free software community looks like a vagrant pickpocket.

The SCO vs. IBM lawsuit is expected to go to trial in two to three years. The SCO FUD isn't going away anytime soon -- unless they get bought -- which is exactly what they want to happen.

Red Hat posted a short letter to their customers regarding the SCO situation. It's worth reading.

nivin.org is temporarily down. I should really look into getting a Mini-ITX as our firewall/gateway.

Fan on the (Built-by) ATI 7500 in Misty's computer (current firewall/gateway) only mostly works now. I've never heard anything good about those fans, so the plan is to replace it with a Sapphire (Powered by ATI) 9000 with only a heatsink.

After much effort, I finally have a usable hacking environment. I picked up a Tyan s2495, Athlon XP 2700, a gig of RAM, and installed Red Hat 8.0 on it. My current laptop is still running Red Hat 7.2 with xfs (predates the stable release of ext3), so this was my first time getting 8.0 up and running.

metacity is the least configurable window manager that I've ever used. Luckily, the code is small and readable, so I was able to easily hack in some window behaviors to keep myself from going insane. Releasing a window manager for production use that doesn't support configurable mouse bindings? Come on... Red Hat should be able to do better than that.

Normally American Airlines doesn't fly non-stop from RDU to PVD... They closed BOS after we started our approach - luckily, PVD was still open, and even though there was a ton of chop, we finally landed. I decided not to take the free bus ride to Logan and instead booked a train ticket on the last Acela Express for the evening. In bad weather, I much prefer to be on a train. Getting a taxi to the train station wasn't easy, but I made it with about 10 minutes to spare.

South Station soon, then T, then home -- for a yummy Christmas dinner.

The picture is from the Amtrak station -- "Acela la la la, lalala". :)

I should have known that something was terribly wrong when I went to the men's restroom and there were more women in there than men. But no, I didn't think much of it... This was just after a nice hour and half long set from Aimee Mann.

Then the Indigo Girls came out...and I really wasn't expecting the transformation that took place. Before, there were lots of girls in the audience that were quietly grooving to Aimee, and then after the Indigo Girls came out, they turned into cuddling/kissing/bouncing/singing/screaming lesbians.

It was a bit of a shock. I expected there to be a lot of lesbians at the show, but I didn't expect the sudden change in demeanor.

Caching callout sender verification finally exists in Exim 4.10.13 (beta release of 4.11). 4.10.13 is installed at gnu.org and the rejectlog is growing nicely -- gnu.org addresses are now receiving much less spam.

If person A sends a message B to a gnu.org mail server, before we accept B, we check to make sure that A can receive a bounce message if we are unable to deliver B.

Besides guaranteeing that A will know for sure if B was delivered, spammers almost always use fake return envelopes, and since A won't exist, we never deliver B.